Love is always being given where it is not required.

I'd far rather leave a thought behind me than a child. Other people can have children.

I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.

Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.

The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.

At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.

When that strange race nears the dust and is condemned as untouchable, then nature remembers the physical perfection that she accomplished elsewhere, and throws out a god-not many, but one here and there, to prove to society how little its categories impress her.